Top 5 Affordable Wines that taste Expensive!

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Hello, bonjour my wine loving friends, and welcome to your new Bonner private wines video where we learn here on this channel about wine together weekly. Tons of incredible wine content here. Brought to you by the best wine club in America. The world of wine can often feel like an exclusive club, and I’ve been part of it as a professional for 25 plus years.

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But prices can be really, really high and create a barrier to entry for many. However, if we look and if we know what to look for, the truth is that delicious, complex, even seemingly expensive tasting wines can be found without breaking the bank. And that’s what we’re looking at today. It’s about knowing where to look and understanding the characteristics that contribute to perceived quality.

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In this video, we will explore five affordable wine styles, typically between 10 and $20 that punch well above their weight, offering really good value and a taste of luxury without the hefty price tag. Two things that I like to do with you here in this video. First, watch the video and hear what my top suggestions are and tell me what you think about them and then let me know your top picks for affordable wine options, especially select a region or an appellation that you love that makes great non expensive options.

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Let us know in the comments and or upvote other people’s suggestions in the comments. You drop a like on the comment or the suggestion that you prefer. This way. I have a list of other affordable options and we can all share our best affordable wine options. And I will make another video with your top picks, so make sure you leave a comment and engage in our discussion in the comments as well.

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But let’s go and talk about five wines that are affordable without spending too much.

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And first, one of the most reliable regions overall in the world of wine for finding value driven wines with complex flavors. Notes of history is the Loire Valley in France. Because they are not all that famous, but they have really good quality. Specifically, you can look for a muscat de. This can be said in English. Often overlooked muscadine wines made from the melon, the bull going grape offer a remarkable freshness and a lot of minerality.

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They are typically very dry, with high acidity and subtle. Celine notes, so a bit salty, reminiscent of the sea. A good muscadine can exhibit flavors of citrus, a bit of green apple and even a slight yeasty complexity from extended release contact, which is a winemaking technique that we use in the winery, where we leave all the dead yeasts in contact with the wine after fermentation in this process adds a lot of texture and a lot of depth, often associated with more expensive white wines like in Burgundy.

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But Muscadet is nowhere near the best sort of prices. Muscadet is a fantastic pairing for white wine, for seafood, further enhancing the perceived elegance. The key to finding a truly expensive tasting muscadet is to look for those wines that are cold, surely meaning on the lees, indicating that they have had that specific technique that gives them more that depth, the oily texture and the complexity.

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And they do taste extremely good, especially if you can find ones that are a little bit more aged for extended period on time of times on lees, which get a very cheap but so good on seafood and on your entrees. Muscadet is number one.

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For and outside of France, I’m French, but I do drink and enjoy all the vino. So we must talk about the often underestimated Portuguese vinho verde. vinho verde. I think they would say in Portuguese wine. Many associate vinho verde with slightly fizzy sweet wines. There are many that are dry now and that are complex because they know that they need to up the game in that region because it has that really old school approach of making really light bodied and not very interesting wines.

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But a lot of Vinho verde is now a super interesting. They have a lot of fruit flavors like lime, grapefruit, green, green melon alongside a distinctive minerality. Some producers are now experienced in experimenting as well, with the similar lees aging technique has a new sherry adding texture and complexity that adds a lot of depth. Also, combined with the inherent freshness and the vibrant fruit that can easily trick the palate into thinking it’s experiencing a more expensive wine.

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So we know where it is now. How really affordable, because the reputation is originally not that good. But if you can find some producers asks you at your local wine shop if they have a really good wine everyday, you might be actually surprised. And the story of those wines, if you look it up, is fantastic. And I’m sure your guests or your fellow wine loving friends will be impressed by them as well.

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Really good. Out of the box. Out of the ordinary wine option here for white wines. Muscat A and Vino Verde I love them. Do you know them? Let me know in the comments.

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And shifting to red wines. Of course there’s going to be a fantastic option which is Beaujolais from France. They offer exceptional value and a delightful drinking experience made from the Gamay grape, which is a bit lighter in body. Then the cabin is an all of the bigger wines. It’s a little bit more like a Pinot noir, but still a bit bigger fruit forward, often bursting with aromas of red berries.

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The cherries and even a touch of spices as well. What’s set spoons really apart in contributes to its perceived quality is its vibrant acidity and relatively low tannins, even though some vintages can be quite a lot bigger. So this combination makes the wines incredibly food friendly and approachable, and because again, that region comes from the reputation of wines that weren’t previously all that complex, well, they come at a reasonable price.

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They can display surprising complexity, tonnes of aging potential as well, further enhancing the impression of a more expensive wine. You can aged them as well. If you want to cellar them for five years. Ten years, you’re going to have even more depth and more bang for your buck. So you must look above for the Beaujolais cru. So the villages that produce the best examples, like mango or any or even one that has a similarly name to mine, which is the genus, all of the Beaujolais coups.

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Those villages make fantastic examples delicious reds for not too expensive. Some have become a little bit more expensive now because the region is really starting to shine globally with the quality of their wines, but many are still still very affordable.

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And if we leave France again, yes, it is not only France we need to look at Italy. So we don’t want many overly reputable and quite expensive the mineralized barrels. But I love to look into Montepulciano Brut so, which offers a compelling combination of affordability and flavor. This red wine made from the main triple channel grape, which is not the village in Tuscany that’s the grape.

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It has really soft tannins, juicy fruit flavors. The best examples, however, also display a depth and complexity that can rival some of the more expensive Italian red Montepulciano. The Brujo doesn’t have a huge reputation, so the wine the prices are pretty low, but many producers make a lot of efforts to bring all the complexity, the spice, the earthiness, the blackberry, the plum flavors out of the grapes, and the expression of their own Abruzzo terroir.

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So they’re not all that far off in depth and complexity to many of the most expensive, more expensive Tuscan and wines from Piedmont. If I want to go with an affordable Italian wine, that’s going to really impressed, Signore for not a lot of money, lots of fruit, lots of spices. Montepulciano, Abruzzo is a go to Italian wine for me.

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And if we go back to a white wine that you need to know about. And even looking beyond Europe, we need to look into South Africa. And the famed Chenin blanc grape. This is a grape that they borrowed from the Loire Valley. It’s originating and it’s delicious in the Loire Valley, but they’ve really adopted it for a very long time in South Africa, I believe they’re used to make, some distilled alcohol out of it.

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So they used to produce a ton of Chenin blanc for very cheap that they used to distill, but now they make those Chenin blanc into delicious white wine. So they’re very affordable wines because they planted a ton of them, in history. But now they work with those grapes expressing their own terroir. So they have a lot of minerality, tons of citrus, ton of stone fruits, a lot of tropical fruits as well, because it’s quite a bright and warm, climate that they have.

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So complexity, texture and ambition has many, many different facets. And it changes incredibly changes a lot based on the terroir and the growing conditions. So in South Africa, you’re going to find really affordable examples and wines that can be extremely, extremely complex. You need to look for Chenin blanc, particularly from regions like Stellenbosch or the swamp land, more premium appellations to get a bit higher quality, generally speaking.

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But again, ask your local wine shop if they have some Chenin Blanc from South Africa and give them a try. I’m sure you will find some that are sophisticated, that taste very sophisticated, much higher quality than you’d anticipate. Looking at the price tag Chenin Blanc from South Africa.

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In conclusion, finding affordable wines that taste expensive is entirely possible with a little research, exploration and knowledge. And here I’ve just given you a fair bit of knowledge and a fair bit of clues on where to explore. If you’ve made it this far. Well, thank you so much. You’re my hero and it means that you’re very serious about learning more about wine.

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So we would all love to hear what are your go to one stars regions and appellations that are quite affordable and that taste consistently good and above the price tag and make sure to upvote all the comments that you find interesting as well. Again, if there’s enough good options and upvotes, I promise I’ll make a video about your choices because I want to give you more and more information.

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